anemic

See also: anèmic

English

Alternative forms

• anaemic (Commonwealth)
• anæmic (dated)

Etymology

Etymology tree

English anemia

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -icuslbor.

Old French -iquebor.

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Latin -icusbor.

Middle English -ik

English -ic

English anemic

From anemia + -ic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈniː.mɪk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːmɪk

Adjective

anemic (comparative more anemic, superlative most anemic)

1. Of, pertaining to, or suffering from anemia.
2. (by extension) Weak; listless; lacking power, vigor, vitality, or colorfulness.

   Near-synonyms: enervated, underoxygenated

   • 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 219:

     [H]e was one of those weak creatures full of a shifty cunning - who face neither God nor man, who face not even themselves, void of pride, timorous, anæmic, hateful souls.

   • 1938, Henry Goddard Leach, Forum and Century, volume 100, page 156:

     My ordinarily even disposition was shattered, I thought, beyond repair — a condition that was not improved by my utter abhorrence of a diet of infant's food and anemic vegetables.

Antonyms

• nonanemic

Coordinate terms

• pseudoanemic

Derived terms

• anemically
• antianemic

Translations

of or pertaining to anemia

• Asturian: anémicu
• Bulgarian: анемичен (bg) (anemičen), малокръвен (bg) (malokrăven)
• Catalan: anèmic
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 贫血 (zh) (pínxuè)

• Czech: chudokrevný (cs), anemický (cs)
• Danish: anæmisk, blodfattig
• Dutch: anemisch (nl)
• Esperanto: anemia (eo)
• Finnish: aneeminen (fi), vähäverinen (fi)
• French: anémique (fr) m or f
• Galician: anémico
• German: anämisch (de), blutarm (de)
• Greek: αναιμικός (el) (anaimikós)
• Hindi: क्षीणरक्त (kṣīṇrakt)
• Icelandic: blóðlaus m
• Irish: anaemach, neamhfholach
• Italian: anemico (it)
• Macedonian: слабокрвен (slabokrven), анемичен (anemičen)
• Manx: aneemagh
• Norman: anémique m or f
• Plautdietsch: blootoam
• Polish: anemiczny (pl)
• Portuguese: anémico (Portugal), anêmico (pt) (Brazil)
• Russian: анеми́чный (ru) (anemíčnyj), малокро́вный (ru) (malokróvnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: анѐмичан

  Latin: anèmičan (sh)

• Sicilian: anèmicu
• Spanish: anémico (es)
• Swedish: anemisk (sv)
• Ukrainian: анемі́чний (uk) (anemíčnyj)
• Welsh: anemaidd, anemig
• Yiddish: אַנעמיש (anemish)

listless, lacking vitality

• Danish: blodfattig, anæmisk
• Finnish: aneeminen (fi)
• Polish: anemiczny (pl)
• Ukrainian: анемі́чний (uk) (anemíčnyj)

See also

• bloodless
• hypoxic

Noun

anemic (plural anemics)

1. A person who has anemia.

Translations

Translations

• Polish: anemik (pl) m, anemiczka f

Anagrams

• Mencia, came in, cinema, iceman

Interlingua

Adjective

anemic (not comparable)

1. anemic

Related terms

• anemia

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Hellenic *ə-

Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-)

Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-)

Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā

Ancient Greek -ίᾱ (-íā)

Ancient Greek ἀναιμία (anaimía)lbor.

French anémie

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -icuslbor.

Old French -ique

Middle French -ique

French -ique

French anémiquebor.

Romanian anemic

Borrowed from French anémique. By surface analysis, anemie + -ic.

Noun

anemic m (plural anemici, feminine equivalent anemică)

1. anemic

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	anemic	anemicul	anemici	anemicii
genitive-dative	anemic	anemicului	anemici	anemicilor
vocative	anemicule		anemicilor